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Aug 26, 2025
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2025-2026 Course of Study Bulletin
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CLAS - 1309 Pirates, Merchants, and Marines: Seafaring in the Ancient Mediterranean
Description
This course explores how human relations with the sea affected the social, economic, military, political, and technological aspects of life in the ancient Mediterranean littoral. Evidence includes hulls and cargoes of shipwrecks, harborworks, inscriptions, graffiti, wall painting and mosaics, literary texts, and gravestones. A central focus will be an introduction to the methodology and technologies of archaeology, but the subject matter of this course and the nature of the discipline of maritime archaeology incorporate methodologies and substance also from the fields of Anthropology , Ethnography, Physical Sciences, Engineering, Art History, History, and Geography. (Also listed as ANTH 1309 .)
Credits: 3
Course Level: Lower Division
Academic Level: Undergraduate
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